News
Launch of our New Campaign Leaflet
As we enter the next phase in our campaign to save Old Park, we are launching a new campaign leaflet. The leaflet summarises the importance of...
March 2025 Newsletter
Below is a copy of our email newsletter. If you would like to subscribe and recieve future editions to your email inbox, please visit our contact...
Lost on Old Park?!
If you have ever got lost in the myriad of footpaths that weave in and around Old Park, you will appreciate the value of a handy pocket-sized map....
AGM on Monday evening
The AGM of the Friends of Old Park & Chequers Wood will take place on the evening of Monday 3 March in the Friends Meeting House, 6 The Friars,...
The campaign to save Old Park begins to get national coverage
This article in the i newspaper from 23 February 2025 highlights the parallels between the campaign to save Middlewick Ranges in Essex (also acid...
The Ecological Connectivity along the river Stour between Stodmarsh and Old Park
This short 360º video, taken from a drone above Fordwich, shows the ecological connectivity between the Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve
Call for Statements about Recreational Usage of Old Park
If you are able to do so, please send in your evidence statement demonstrating recreational usage of the MoD land on Old Park in the recent past...
KM Gazette: MOD to sell ‘hidden gem’ land
This week our campaign was featured on the front page of the KM Gazette! You can read a snippet of the article below, and the entire piece here » A...
A huge congratulations to the Middlewick Ranges Campaign!
After years of hard campaigning, congratulations to the Save Middlewick Ranges campaign for persuading Colchester City Council to propose the...
Newsletter February 2025
Below is a copy of our email newsletter. If you would like to subscribe and recieve future editions to your email inbox, please visit our contact...
Newsletter January 2025
Below is a copy of our email newsletter. If you would like to subscribe and recieve future editions to your email inbox, please visit our contact...
Making Space For Nature video
Natural England and Canterbury Golf Course have produced a great little video as part of the Making Space For Nature process to show how they are...
New short video on Operation Turtle Dove’s activities in East Kent
See link below for a lovely short video about the RSPB's Operation Turtle Dove which is working to save one of the UK's most endangered birds. Much...
Fungi Survey on Old Park
In spite of the wild and windy weather brought over by Storm Ashley, fungi experts from Kent Field Club managed to find a great diversity of species...